James J. Gallagher: Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest.

The American Psychological Foundation (APF) Gold Medal Awards recognize distinguished and enduring records of accomplishment in four areas of psychology. The 2005 recipient of the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest is James J. Gallagher. Dorothy W. Cantor, president of the APF, will present the Gold Medal Awards at the 113th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association on August 19, 2005, at 4:00 p.m. Members of the 2005 APF Board of Trustees are Dorothy W. Cantor, president; Norman Abeles, secretary; Charles L. McKay, treasurer; Elisabeth R. Straus, executive vice president/executive director; Norman Anderson; Camilla Benbow; Patrick H. DeLeon; Ronald E. Fox; William C. Howell; Steven E. James; Joseph D. Matarazzo; Martin E. P. Seligman; Robert J. Sternberg; and Philip G. Zimbardo. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

当代建筑师如何创造适宜的无障碍环境

通过对公共建筑无障碍环境设计的重要性、设计原则、经济效益等方面的阐述，认为运用现代科学条件和多学科的协作，创造适宜的无障碍环境是当代建筑师的责任和使命。     

公共机构信息机房环境控制与能耗问题及对策

基于对我国公共机构信息机房的情况调研、业务设备和空调设备的用电计量工作,发现目前公共机构普遍配备规模较大的信息机房,且多呈继续扩容的趋势,机房用电占到各单位年总电耗的20%～45%,比重很大.在调研与用电计量基础上,对典型机房的环境控制效果进行测试分析,发现现有空调机房具有很大的节能潜力,并针对目前存在不合理用能现象提出可行的节能方法.     

一种基于纠错编码的公钥体制改进Kerberos协议的方法

Kerberos协议是用于保护网络内部各种提供服务的服务器的一种常用协议。首先介绍了该协议的实现过程,分析了它的优点和薄弱环节。然后提出一种用公钥体制改进Kerberos协议的方法,采用这种新方法有效地提高了原协议的安全性,并且大体保持了协议原有的架构。最后分析了基于Goppa纠错码的公钥体制的特点,以及它适合用于改进Kerberos协议的原因。     

Cost assessment of concrete and steel types for office buildings: An exploratory study

This paper presents a set of regression models which incorporates concrete and steel types in modeling the costs of office buildings. To these ends, three typical office buildings with seven and 15 stories have been designed by the help of a commercial software taking into account the Turkish practice. In each project C-16, C-20, C-25, C-30 and C-35 concrete classes and S-220 and S-420 steel types were used for dimensioning purposes. Rough construction costs were then calculated for different combinations of concrete classes and steel types. The findings of the study revealed that column dimensions decrease following an increase in a particular concrete class. However, this decrease stops after C-30. Furthermore, an average cost difference of 16% was observed between the steel types S-220 and S-420.     

冷弯薄壁型钢在房屋建筑中的应用

介绍了冷弯薄壁型钢房屋的几种结构体系形式,并对其计算方法、试验研究进行了阐述,论述了其房屋建筑的特点,指出该结构体系将会大力推进我国房屋建筑的商业化、系统化、专业化生产。     

Materials decay and environmental attack in the Pio Palace at Carpi: A holistic approach for historical architectural surfaces conservation

Since the XIV century the Pio Palace in Carpi (MO, Italy) has been subjected to many additions and rearrangements and, in the last decades, to wide restoration works. Nevertheless the XVII century main portal has not been restored yet, due to its complex and peculiar surface alteration forms in comparison with the other parts of the building, and still suffers a deep decay and degradation by complex chemical-physical processes.     

Energy efficient office buildings with passive cooling – Results and experiences from a research and demonstration programme

To gain access to information on energy use in office buildings, the German Federal Ministry for Economy launched an intensive research and demonstration programme in 1995. In advance of the 2002 EU energy performance directive a limited primary energy coefficient of about 100 kW h m⁻² a⁻¹ as a goal for the complete building services technology was postulated (HVAC + lighting) for all demonstration buildings to be supported. A further condition was that active cooling be avoided. Techniques such as natural or mechanical night ventilation or heat removal by slab cooling with vertical ground pipes as well as earth-to-air heat exchangers in the ventilation system were applied. An accompanying research was established to keep track of the results and the lessons learned from about 22 demonstration buildings realized and monitored until the end of 2005. As one outcome this paper summarises the energy performance of a selection of characteristic buildings together with an overview on the summer thermal comfort situations achieved. The research program will proceed during the next five years. Detailed reports and future results may be downloaded from the internet: www.enbau-monitor.de.     

Increasing the audio watermark data rate in the construction of ubiquitous acoustic spaces

We propose “Ubiquitous Acoustic Spaces,” in which each sound source can emit some address information with audio signals and allow automatic access to its related cyber space, using handheld devices such as cell phones. In order to realize this concept, we have considered three types of extraction methods: acoustic modulation, audio fingerprints, and audio watermarking. We have proposed a novel audio watermarking technique, which allows contactless asynchronous detection of embedded audio watermarks through speaker and microphone devices. However, its embedding data rate was around 10 bps, which was not sufficient for embedding generally used URL address texts. Therefore, we have extended the embedding frequency range and proposed a duplicated embedding algorithm, which uses both the previously proposed frequency division method and the temporal division method together. By these improvements, the possible embedding data rate could be extended to 61.5 bps, and we could extract watermarks through public telephone networks, even from a cell phone sound source. In this paper, we describe our improved watermark embedding and extracting algorithms, and present experimental results on watermark extraction precision under several audio signal capturing conditions. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 165(1): 42–51, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience. wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/eej.20758     

介入与融合——现代陶艺与校园公共艺术

中国校园公共艺术中的人文精神，必然是在符合中国国情语境下的适当表述。现代陶艺介入并且融合校园文化环境中，在内容上如何了解并考察更广泛而丰富的校园需求，最深层次地激发文化背景下的自主意识，张扬其个性，只有这样现代陶艺才能够在校园环境下融入由校园公共艺术所营造的氛围之中。